DOCSLIB.ORG

Anthony PILLARI.Pdf

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

The Current Juridic and Moral Value of the Index of Forbidden Books by Anthony PILLARI DCA 6395 Chad GLENDINNING Faculty of Canon Law Saint Paul University Ottawa 2017 The author hereby authorizes Saint Paul University, its successors and assignees, to electronically distribute or reproduce this seminar paper by photography or photocopy, and to lend or sell such reproductions at a cost to libraries and to scholars requesting them. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER 1 – HISTORY OF THE INDEX OF FORBIDDEN BOOKS ............................................. 7 1.1 Early Church History .............................................................................................................................. 7 1.2 Sacred Congregation of the Index (1571 – 1917)................................................................................. 10 1.3 Censorship in the 1917 Code ................................................................................................................ 13 CHAPTER 2 – ABROGATION OF THE INDEX: CURRENT JURIDIC AND MORAL STATUS .. .................................................................................................................................................................... 18 2.1 Abrogation of the Index ........................................................................................................................ 18 2.2 Current Juridic Status ............................................................................................................................ 19 2.3 Current Moral Value ............................................................................................................................. 20 2.4 Censorship in the 1983 Code ................................................................................................................ 23 2.5 Manner of Proceeding of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Censorship ..................... 24 CHAPTER 3 – CASE STUDY: WRITINGS OF MARIA VALTORTA ............................................. 27 3.1 Valtorta’s Work is Placed on the Index ................................................................................................ 28 3.2 Juridic Import of Subsequent Letters from Prelates .............................................................................. 29 3.2.1 Letters of Ratzinger ............................................................................................................................ 29 3.2.2 Letter of Tettamanzi ........................................................................................................................... 31 3.2.3 Imprimatur Granted ........................................................................................................................... 34 3.3 Juridic Import of Testimony of Saints .................................................................................................. 34 3.3.1 Saint Teresa of Calcutta ..................................................................................................................... 36 3.3.2 Blessed Maria Inés Teresa Arias ........................................................................................................ 36 3.3.3 Blessed Gabriel Allegra ..................................................................................................................... 37 3.4 Current Juridic and Moral Value of the Index for the Poem of the Man-God ...................................... 39 CONCLUSION ......................................................................................................................................... 43 Appendix I Testimony of Fr. Leo Maasburg .............................................................................................. 45 Appendix II Letter of Blessed Maria Inés Teresa Arias ............................................................................. 46 Appendix III Letter of Sister Uranga .......................................................................................................... 47 BIBLIOGRAPHY ..................................................................................................................................... 48 ABBREVIATIONS AAS Acta Apostolicae Sedis c. Canon cc. Canons CDF Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith CIC/17 Codex iuris canonici, Pii X Pontificis Maximi iussu digestus CIC/83 Codex iuris canonici, auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II promulgatus TPSF To Promote and Safeguard the Faith, CDF. Notification CDF, Notification regarding the abolition of the Index of books. Poem The Poem of the Man-God or The Gospel as Revealed to Me, Valtorta. INTRODUCTION Jesus came and said to [the apostles], “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you, and behold I am with you always, to the close of the age.”1 The Catholic Church, seeking to carry out this mission solemnly confided to her by Jesus Christ, proclaims that she has the “duty and innate right, independent of any human power whatsoever, to preach the Gospel to all peoples.”2 This includes the duty of vigilance with regard to teachings that could be harmful to the Gospel message. In this regard the bishops, as the successors of the apostles, have a particular “duty and right to be watchful so that no harm is done to the faith and morals of the Christian faithful through writings or the use of instruments of social communication.”3 Throughout the past two thousand years this duty has been exercised in a variety of ways. The New Testament reports that the apostles exercised vigilance with regard to particular people and the spoken word.4 Following their example, the bishops as the successors to the apostles have continued throughout the Church’s history to exercise this vigilance in each of their own dioceses. On occasion bishops have gathered in regional or ecumenical councils to exercise this role of vigilance with regard to particular geographic regions of the Church or with regard to the entire Church. With the advent of the printing press and the events of the Protestant Reformation, particular authors and books were more frequently impacting simultaneously the Christian 1 Mt 28: 18-20. In this paper, all quotations from the Bible are from The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition, original edition prepared by the CATHOLIC BIBLICAL ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN, second edition revised according to Liturgiam authenticam by Ignatius Press, Nashville, TN, Thomas and Nelson Publishing, 2006. 2 Codex iuris canonici, auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II promulgatus, fontium annotatione et indice analytico- alphabetico auctus, Libreria editrice Vaticana, 1989, English translation Code of Canon Law: Latin-English Edition, New English Translation, prepared under the auspices of the CANON LAW SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Washington, DC, Canon Law Society of America, 1999, canon 747 §1. All references to the canons of the 1983 code will be styled “c.” for canon and “cc.” for canons, followed by the canon number(s). 3 Canon 823 §1. 4 See 1 Ti 1:19–20, 6:20; Tt 3:10–11; 2 Jn 10–11; Rom 16:17. 4 5 faithful in different countries. To more effectively respond to this situation the Church created in the sixteenth century the Sacred Congregation of the Index, which oversaw, in conjunction with the Holy Office, the Index of Forbidden Books (hereafter “the Index”), for almost four centuries. In 1966 Paul VI abolished the Index, and in 1983 the new Code of Canon Law laid out new procedures for exercising this vigilance. Since the Index is now abolished, does it retain any value for the Church today? Or is it merely a relic of the past that is no longer relevant for our modern world, or at least no longer relevant for modern western democracies? In fact, western democracies are beginning to reconsider the value of censorship. For example, faced with the decapitation of hostages broadcast via the internet, western societies are again seriously considering whether it might not be in people’s best interest to prohibit the public communication of such things.5 For the Church there are deeper reasons for which this issue continues to be relevant: the Gospel mandate to “make disciples of all nations… teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” is as relevant today as it was two thousand years ago. Similarly, the dangers that misleading or erroneous teachings pose to souls continue today. When the Index was abrogated the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith clarified that the Index, while no longer having the force of ecclesiastical law, remained morally binding.6 However, the precise nature of this enduring value and the role it should play in the life of the Church continues to be debated.7 This paper will seek to clarify the current juridic and moral value of the Index. 5 H. WOLF, Storia dell’Indice. Il Vaticano e i libri proibiti, Rome, Donzelli, 2006, 10. 6 CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Notification regarding the abolition of the Index of books, 14 June 1966, in AAS, 58 (1966), 445, English translation http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19660614_de-indicis-libr- prohib_en.html (23 February 2016). 7 See M. PACWA, “Is
Recommended publications
  • Chronology of the Martin and Guérin Families***

    Chronology of the Martin and Guérin Families***

    CHRONOLOGY OF THE MARTIN AND GUÉRIN FAMILIES*** 1777 1849 April 16, 1777 - The birth of Pierre-François Martin in Athis-de- father of Louis Martin. His baptismal godfather was his maternal uncle, François Bohard. July 6, 1789 - The birth of Isidore Guérin, Sr. in St. Martin- father of Zélie Guérin Martin. January 12, 1800 - The birth of Marie-Anne-Fanie Boureau in Blois (Loir et Cher). She was the mother of Louis Martin. July 11, 1805 - The birth of Louise-Jeanne Macé in Pré- en-Pail (Mayenne). She was the mother of Marie-Louise Guérin (Élise) known in religion as Sister Marie-Dosithée, Zélie Guérin Martin and Isidore Guérin. April 4, 1818 - Pierre-François Martin and Marie-Anne- Fanie Boureau were married in a civil ceremony in Lyon. April 7, 1818 - Pierre-François Martin and Marie-Anne- Fanie Boureau were married in Lyon in the Church of Saint-Martin- Abbé Bourganel. They lived at 4 rue Vaubecourt. They were the parents of Louis Martin. July 29, 1819 - The birth of Pierre Martin in Nantes. He was the oldest brother of Louis Martin. He died in a shipwreck when still very young. September 18, 1820 - The birth of Marie-Anne Martin in Nantes. She was the oldest sister of Louis Martin. August 22, 1823 - The birth of Louis-Joseph-Aloys- Stanislaus Martin on the rue Servandoni in Bordeaux (Gironde). He was the son of Pierre-François Martin and Marie- Anne-Fanie Boureau. He was the brother of Pierre, Marie-Anne, Anne-Françoise- Fanny and Anne Sophie Martin. He was 1 the husband of Zélie Guérin Martin and the father of Marie, Pauline, Léonie, Céline and Thérèse (St.
  • Maria Valtorta Foundation Newsletter

    Maria Valtorta Foundation Newsletter

    MariaV altorta Viale Carducci, 71 - 55049 VIAREGGIO (Lucca) Newsletter www.fondazionemariavaltorta.it Edited by Fondazione Maria Valtorta – AUGUST 1, 2018 – Newsletter N° 51 PROBLEMS OF THE PRESENT TIME Father Migliorini, Maria Valtorta and Dora Barsottelli – part 1 Ordine Very little we know about Dora Barsottelli, but the little we know touches in a dei Servi di Maria dramatic way either Maria Valtorta and Father Migliorini. The fracture between Maria Valtorta and Father Migliorini, the definitive and irrevocable moving of him to Rome, the spiritual solitude of her; the rise and disappearance of Dora Barsottelli, are the happenings of our history. In that year 1946, finally freed from war, but full of perils and poverty, there takes place a real, truly human tragedy, that will hardly strike Maria Valtorta and her inner circle. Father Romualdo M. Migliorini, Order of Servants of Maria, in 1942 First of all I obviously feel indispensable to summarize all facts given by Maria became the spiritual director of Valtorta’s writings. A note from the administration of The Notebooks 1945-1950, the mystic Maria Valtorta until his removal and transfer from Viareg- tells who Dora Barsottelli was: gio to Rome, in 1946. Died July 10, «This refers to Dora Barsottelli, from Camaiore, Tuscany, who said she was favored 1953. by manifestations concerning whose origins yet, Maria Valtorta arbored apprehen- sion and doubt, as we shall see in the course of the present volume and as can be noted in other writings separate from the Notebooks. They both knew about each other because of Father Migliorini, spiritual director of Maria Valtorta was also Barsottelli’s care taker’s case».
  • Maria Valtorta

    Maria Valtorta

    Maria Valtorta THE BOOK OF AZARIAH Translated from the Italian by David G. Murray CENTRO EDITORIALE VALTORTIANO All rights reserved in all Countries. Original title: Libro di Azaria. @ 1972 by Tipografia Editrice M. Pisani. @ 1982 by Emilio Pisani. @ 1988 by Centro Editoriale Valtortiano srl. Translation by David G. Murray. @) 1993 by Centro Editoriale Valtortiano srl., Viale Piscicelli 89-91, 03036 Isola del Liri - Italy. ISBN 88-7987-013-0 Film setting by Centro Editoriale Valtortiano srl. Printing and Binding by Tipografia Editrice M. Pisani sas., Isola del Liri. Cover design by Piero Luigi Albery. Printed in Italy, 1993. CONTENTS 10 Translator's Note to the English Edition 12 Alphabetical Listing of Abbreviations for Citing the Books of the Bible 15 Sexagesima Sunday 19 Quinquagesima Sunday 23 The First Sunday of Lent 28 The Second Sunday of Lent 33 The Third Sunday of Lent 42 The Fourth Sunday of Lent 50 Passion Sunday 59 Palm Sunday 68 Resurrection Sunday 74 In Albis Sunday 83 Second Sunday after Easter 90 Third Sunday after Easter 98 Fourth Sunday after Easter 107 Fifth Sunday after Easter 116 Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension 6 124 Pentecost Sunday 133 Holy Mass of the First Sunday after Pentecost and Feast of the Holy Trinity 140 Corpus Christi 148 Holy Mass in the Octave of Corpus Christi 156 Sunday in the Octave of the Sacred Heart and commemoration of St. Paul 163 Fourth Sunday after Pentecost 172 Fifth Sunday after Pentecost 179 Sixth Sunday after Pentecost 182 Seventh Sunday after Pentecost 186 Eighth Sunday after
  • Voiding the Voices of Heaven & the Anathema of Vatican I

    Voiding the Voices of Heaven & the Anathema of Vatican I

    VOIDING VOIDING TTHHEE VVOOIICCEESS OOFF HHEEAA VVEENN The Church’s Post Vatican Spiritual, Moral and Ecclesiastical Crisi s, The Poem of the Man-Go d and the New Evangelization © 2002 by David J. Webster, M. Div. VV OO II DD II NN GG TTHHEE VVOOIICCEESS OOFF HHEEAAVVEENN The Church’s Post Vatican II Spiritual, Moral and Ecclesiastical Crisis, The Poem of the Man-God and the New Evangelization TESTIMONIALS OF SUPPORT “Your point in this essay is valid, and indeed, it is the scandal of our time that . the Church is able to suppress . warnings from Heaven . excellent essay.” Stephen Foglein, Missionary of Our Lady of La Salette, Orangevale, CA and author of five books. “I enjoyed your paper on Private Revelation. It is well written.” Father Bill O’Neill, Pastor of Our Lady of Grace Church, Hinkley, OH. “He (the author) has tackled a problem that Fr. Gruner has often addressed.” Father Michael Jareski, Secretary for The Servants of Jesus and Mary at The Fatima Center, Constable, NY “Voiding the Voices of Heaven. I could not more wholeheartedly agree.” Father Alfred O. Winshman, S.J., Marian Renewal Ministry, Boston MA Enthusiastically endorsed by Rev. Frank Kenney, S.T.D., from Dayton, OH. Fr. Kenney holds a doctorate in Marian Theology. Additional copies available from: Save Our Church P.O. Box 1404 Medina OH 44050 Order Form available at our Bookstore Catalog at www.saveourchurch.org Table of Contents Dedication Introduction Chapter One: The Voices of Heaven – The Needed Acts of Heaven’s Mercy / Page 1 Do Not Allow My “Future Voices” to
  • St Joseph His Life and Mission

    St Joseph His Life and Mission

    St Joseph His Life and Mission John D Miller CONTENTS Introduction 2 The Annunciation 5 The Marriage of Joseph and Mary 6 A typical Jewish marriage 8 Joseph’s dilemma 10 The Nativity 12 The Circumcision and Naming of Jesus 12 The Presentation in the Temple 13 The Flight into Egypt 13 The Boy Jesus in the Temple 15 When did Joseph die? 17 The Holiness of Saint Joseph 19 The Cult of Saint Joseph 22 Conclusion 26 Bibliography 27 END NOTES 29 Copyright © John Desmond Miller 2017 ST JOSEPH HIS LIFE AND MISSION An Essay by John D Miller 2 Introduction Though prayers to Saint Joseph featured in my life I had never paid great attention to him. I had learnt the night prayer to Jesus, Mary and Joseph for assistance ‘in my last agony’ when at school aged eight. In later life I had developed the habit of asking St Joseph’s help with practical matters such as problems with the car or computer. It was a reference to St Joseph during an Advent retreat in December 2016 that prompted me to explore his life and mission in more detail. The retreat master mentioned two things about St Joseph which intrigued me: within the Holy Family Joseph held ‘a primacy of authority’ while Mary held ‘a primacy of love’1 and secondly that a recent mystic had experienced inner locutions from St Joseph indicating that he had been sanctified in the womb. A search of the Internet on Sister Ephrem Neuzil confirmed that St Joseph had reportedly said to her that he had been freed from original sin soon after his conception.
  • Death Penalty Stirs Debate in Colorado Faith Strong in Former Soviet Union

    Death Penalty Stirs Debate in Colorado Faith Strong in Former Soviet Union

    Vol. LXXm No. 40 Ninety-seven years of service to the Gospel October 15, 1997 Death penalty Design unveiled for new Holy Family High School stirs debate in Colorado BY LISA BENOIT Editor’s note: The Denver Catholic Register went to press Monday afternoon, prior to the time scheduled for the execu­ tion of Gary Davis. hirteen panelists gathered ‘ v-‘" TOct. 10 in the University of Denver auditorium to debate A % fit the impact of the death penalty on Colorado. As they discussed the issue, Gary Davis sat in his cell in Canon City awaiting his execution, scheduled for Mon­ day at 8 p.m. Continued on Page 2 Faith strong in former THE design of the new $12 million Holy Family High School was unveiled during the Seeds of Hope leadership dinner, Oct. 7 at the John Paul II Center. Archbishop Charles Chaput will celebrate Mass tomorrow (Thursday) at 7 p.m. at Holy Family Church in recognition of the high school’s 75th anniversary. Soviet Union BY PETER DROEGE “The Ukraine is covered with moun­ Church of the Risen Christ gives tains of corpses and rivers of blood” — Cardinal Joseph Slipyj, imprisoned by Communists for 18 years, in an address $100,000 boost to Seeds of Hope to the Second Vatican Council. three-day conference de­ BY PETER DROEGE the community,” she said. Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., cel­ A signed to highlight the ister LaVonne Guidoni was once a “voice ebrated Mass and keynoted the dinner, attended by need for spiritual and mate­ some 75 community and business leaders.
  • Maria Valtorta Was Born in Caserta, Italy on March 14, 1897

    Maria Valtorta Was Born in Caserta, Italy on March 14, 1897

    In Response to Various Questions Regarding “The Poem of the Man-God" Published on April 15, 2006 by Dr. Mark Miravalle, Professor of theology and Mariology at Franciscan University of Steubenville. [Note: The Poem of the Man God has since been published under the title The Gospel as Revealed to Me, but they are the same book.] Maria Valtorta was born in Caserta, Italy on March 14, 1897. Deeply pious, Maria was strongly attracted to God from early childhood, but it was as a young woman that she started reporting mystical experiences. In 1920 she was randomly attacked by a young man who hit her in the back with an iron bar. Badly injured, she was bedridden for three months and her health began its gradual decline. In the years to follow she made a personal offering of her sufferings to the two Divine attributes of Love and Justice, and by April, 1934, she was permanently confined to her bed. It was in 1943 that Valtorta began to write down in her notebooks the “dictations,” the mystical visions and messages she reported receiving from Jesus and Mary, and the years between 1943 and 1947 were the period of her greatest output. She wrote almost 15000 pages of dictation, a little less than two-thirds of which comprised The Poem of the Man-God, a substantial work on the life of Jesus Christ beginning from the birth of Our Lady and ending at her Assumption. Maria Valtorta died on October 12, 1961. In 1973 her remains were moved to Florence and entombed in the Capitular Chapel in the Grand Cloister of the Basilica of the Most Holy Annunciation in Florence.
  • Due Papi E Tre Beati: I Pastori Ambrosiani Dal '900 a Oggi

    Due Papi E Tre Beati: I Pastori Ambrosiani Dal '900 a Oggi

    Due Papi e tre beati: i pastori ambrosiani dal '900 a oggi Andrea Galli – www.avvenire.it giovedì 6 luglio 2017 Cinque i cardinali arcivescovi "autoctoni", quattro quelli provenienti da "fuori". Grandi figure che hanno lasciato un segno nella Chiesa italiana e non solo Che la cattedra di sant’Ambrogio sia un po’ “speciale” lo dimostra abbondantemente la storia. Ma lo si può vedere anche prendendo uno spaccato recente, ossia i pastori che hanno guidato l’arcidiocesi dall’inizio del ‘900 a oggi. Se si considera l’elenco: Andrea Ferrari (21 maggio 1894 - 2 febbraio 1921) Achille Ratti (13 giugno 1921 - 6 febbraio 1922) Eugenio Tosi (7 marzo 1922 - 7 gennaio 1929) Ildefonso Schuster (26 giugno 1929 - 30 agosto 1954) Giovanni Battista Montini (1 novembre 1954 - 21 giugno 1963) Giovanni Colombo (10 agosto 1963 - 29 dicembre 1979) Carlo Maria Martini (29 dicembre 1979 - 11 luglio 2002) Angelo Scola , dal 28 giugno 2011 Carlo Delpini si può notare che ben tre sono stati i cardinali arcivescovi poi beatificati : Andrea Ferrari (1850- 1921), Ildefonso Schuster (1880-1954), Giovan Battista Montini (1897-1978). Due i pastori ambrosiani eletti al Soglio di Pietro : Achille Ratti, Pio XI, e Giovan Battista Montini, Paolo VI. La provenienza degli arcivescovi è stata “mista”, con cinque pastori nati in diocesi, e quattro fuori. Autoctoni ambrosiani sono stati Eugenio Tosi (Busto Arsizio), Achille Ratti (Desio), Giovanni Colombo (Caronno Pertusella), Dionigi Tettamanzi (Renate) e Angelo Scola (Malgrate). Provenienti da fuori, Andrea Ferrari (Lalatta di Palanzano, Parma), Ildefonso Schuster (Roma), Carlo Maria Martini (Torino). Due i religios i: Ildefonso Schuster, benedettino cassinese, e Carlo Maria Martini, gesuita.
  • A Mathematical Analysis of Maria Valtorta's Mystical Writings

    A Mathematical Analysis of Maria Valtorta's Mystical Writings

    Preprints (www.preprints.org) | NOT PEER-REVIEWED | Posted: 7 November 2018 doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0149.v1 Peer-reviewed version available at Religions 2018, 9, 373; doi:10.3390/rel9110373 Article A Mathematical Analysis of Maria Valtorta’s Mystical Writings Emilio Matricciani 1, *, Liberato De Caro 2 1 Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano Milan 20133, Italy; [email protected] 2 Istituto di Cristallografia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bari 70126, Italy; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +39−0223993639 Abstract: We have studied the very large amount of literary works written by the Italian mystic Maria Valtorta to assess similarities and differences in her writings because she claims that most of them are due to mystical visions. We have used mathematical and statistical tools developed for specifically studying deep linguistic aspects of texts. The general trend indicates that the literary works explicitly attributable to Maria Valtorta differ significantly from her other literary works, that she claims are attributable to the alleged characters Jesus and Mary. Mathematically, they seem to have been written by different authors. The comparison with the Italian literature is very striking. A single author, namely Maria Valtorta, seems to be able to write texts so diverse to cover the entire mathematical range (suitable defined) of the Italian literature of seven centuries. Keywords: Confidence tests, dictations, Jesus Christ, Maria Valtorta, mystics, punctuation marks, readability index, sentences, semantic index, syntactic index, text characters, Virgin Mary, visions, words, word interval. 1. Introduction The history of Christianity has always been characterized by mystics, people who say they have had direct talks with Jesus, visions of Mary and saints, knowledge of future and past events.
  • Marriage and the Family Within the Sacramentality of the Church: Challenges and Perspectives*

    Marriage and the Family Within the Sacramentality of the Church: Challenges and Perspectives*

    MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY WITHIN THE SACRAMENTALITY OF THE CHURCH: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES* CARDINAL MARC OUELLET “The new openings for a pastoral approach based on mercy must take place within the continuity of the Church’s doctrinal tradition, which is itself an expression of divine mercy.” INTRODUCTION The upcoming Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the theme of the family is sparking unprecedented interest in the Church due to the urgency and gravity of the pastoral problems concerned as well as the hopes and expectations expressed in response to preparatory consultations. * This address was originally presented at the Opening Act of the Judicial Year of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of Valencia (Valencia, Spain, 27 March 2014). Communio 41 (Summer 2014). © 2014 by Communio: International Catholic Review MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY WITHIN THE CHURCH 227 Already during Vatican Council II, the Pastoral Con- stitution Gaudium et spes placed marriage and the family at the forefront of the urgent issues of our age.1 Since the publication of the encyclical Humanae Vitae, the 1980 Synod on the family, and John Paul II’s rich teaching on this subject,2 the Church has not ceased to follow with growing concern the evolution of mores and mentalities away from the heritage transmitted by biblical revelation and the Christian tradition. Pope Francis has compared the Church’s mission in the contemporary world to a “field hospital” that treats the many wounded strewn about a battlefield.3 The image per- fectly describes the situation of marriage and the family, which for several decades has experienced a serious deteriora- tion not only on the level of couples’ lived experience but also in legislation contrary to the traditional values of the family, promoted by groups of lobbyists who favor the dominant rela- tivistic mentality.
  • The Renewal of the Ambrosian and the Hispano-Mozarabic Liturgy After the Second Vatican Council

    The Renewal of the Ambrosian and the Hispano-Mozarabic Liturgy After the Second Vatican Council

    „Ruch Biblijny i Liturgiczny” 66 (2013) nr 3 REV. TOMASZ BAĆ The Renewal of the Ambrosian and the Hispano-Mozarabic Liturgy after the Second Vatican Council The renewal of the liturgy and its general reform made after the Second Vatican Council generally concerns the Roman Rite, which all instruc- tions of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium refer to. The conciliar fathers were well aware of the fact that there is a need for renewing other rites and traditions existing in the Church.1 In the introduction to the first conciliar constitution it was stated that: “In faithful obedience to tradition, the sacred Council declares that holy Mother Church holds all lawfully acknowledged rites to be of equal right and dignity; that she wishes to preserve them in the future and to foster them in every way. The Council also desires that, where necessary, the rites be revised carefully in the light of sound tradition, and that they be given new vigor to meet the circumstances and needs of modern times” (Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium, 4). In the Latin Church, from among many local rites which, throughout centuries and alongside the Roman Rite, served as evidence of the rich- ness of the Christian liturgy, tradition and culture, only two rites were 1 In the context of liturgy renewal after the Second Vatican Council the terms “rite” and “liturgy” may be considered to be synonyms, although their meaning is not, in fact, identical; cf. A. M. Triacca, La Liturgia ambrosiana, [in:] La Liturgia: panorama storico generale, Genova 2002, p. 88 (Anàmnesis, 2).
  • Refutation of Horvat's Anti-Valtorta Article Refutes His Main Out- Of-Context Arguments

    Refutation of Horvat's Anti-Valtorta Article Refutes His Main Out- Of-Context Arguments

    How the Orthodoxy of Maria Valtorta’s Work Shines Even More Brightly and Exposing the Methodological and Theological Errors of Marian Horvat: A Complete Refutation of Horvat’s Flawed Anti-Valtorta Article Theological Errors and Incompetency, Methodological Flaws, Distortions and Misrepresentations, Lack of Objectivity, and Ignorance on the Subject She is Writing About: How Horvat’s Anti-Valtorta Article Lacks Substance and Credibility and Stands Completely Refuted By Stephen Austin, January 2016 (Updated May 2017) Tradition in Action (www.TraditioninAction.org) is a traditional Catholic website which is associated with a group that broke away from the SSPX. They have posted several anti-Valtorta articles on their website, one of which is an anti-Valtorta article by Marian Horvat. The most widely-read anti-Valtorta articles in English-speaking countries are those published on EWTN or by those who work for them. I don’t feel the need to discuss concerns about this particular organization here because others have already done thorough investigation and studies of EWTN (such as Christopher Ferrara’s book EWTN: A Network Gone Wrong) and the refutations their anti-Valtorta articles speak for themselves and are readily available here: An Analysis and Refutation of All the Top Anti-Valtorta Articles. However, I do feel the need to address traditioninaction.com because, since they are a traditional Catholic media outlet, they are considered by some traditional and conservative Catholics to ordinarily be more trustworthy than many organizations of the mainstream Catholic media. On some topics and in certain cases, this is true. Unfortunately, on this particular topic, they have proven not to be trustworthy or reliable as my refutations of their anti-Valtorta articles and this article demonstrate.